Category Archives: Web

Incensed at Mozilla

Posted on 2010-08-31 by majid

One of the greatest features in the Webkit-based browsers (Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome) is WebSQLdatabase, the ability for a web site to store information in a SQLite database on your browser accessible via JavaScript. This allows web developers to … Continue reading →

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RapidSSL 1 – GoDaddy 0

Posted on 2010-06-24 by majid

My new company’s website uses SSL. I ordered an “extended validation” certificate from GoDaddy, instead of my usual CA, RapidSSL/GeoTrust, because GoDaddy’s EV certificates were cheap. EV certificates are security theater more than anything else, I probably should not have … Continue reading →

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Scientific papers now citing blogs?

Posted on 2010-03-14 by majid

In my misspent youth I spent about a year as a visiting scholar researching wavelets under Raphy Coifman’s supervision at Yale’s small but excellent Mathematics Department. Professor Coifman was head of a department that also featured Benoît Mandelbrot (of fractals … Continue reading →

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Securing WordPress

Posted on 2009-09-06 by majid

WordPress has been getting a lot of bad press the last few days, as a worm is out in the wild exploiting a security vulnerability. This is leading to somewhat unfair comparisons with Windows, and thoughtful articles from John Gruber … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Weave

Posted on 2009-07-19 by majid

Mozilla Weave is a project of the Mozilla Labs to build synchronization of bookmarks, tabs, passwords and so on between multiple instances of the Firefox browser. It used to be a private beta, but with the release of version 0.4 … Continue reading →

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@font-face embedding

Posted on 2009-07-10 by majid

I updated my wife’s home page to use embedded fonts (in this case the Fonthead GoodDog typeface for headings) with the @font-face CSS primitive. With the introduction of Firefox 3.5, all the major browsers now support embedded typography. As usual, … Continue reading →

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Feedburner down again

Posted on 2009-04-29 by majid

I just tried unsuccessfully to subscribe to a feed hosted by the annoying bozos at FeedBurner. From my Temboz feed error counters, it seems FB feeds have been failing with 503 errors for at least the last 5 hours or … Continue reading →

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The importance of short iteration feedback cycles

Posted on 2008-09-20 by majid

I blog at best once or twice a month on my regular low-intensity blog, which runs my home-grown Mylos software, but am surprising myself by blogging on an almost daily schedule with this WordPress-based blog. Mylos is batch-based: you edit … Continue reading →

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Amazon wishlist optimizer

Posted on 2005-11-21 by majid

I wrote a script several months ago to go through an Amazon wish list and find the combination of items that will best fit within a given budget. Given that the Christmas holiday shopping season seems to have started before … Continue reading →

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The Temboz RSS aggregator

Posted on 2004-03-28 by majid

Contents Introduction Features History Screen shots Known bugs Credits Download Updates Post scriptum Introduction Temboz is a RSS aggregator. It is inspired by FeedOnFeeds (web-based personal aggregator), Google News (two column layout) and TiVo (thumbs up and down). I have … Continue reading →

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